top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-12-03

Ghostty is now non-profit

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit

8 months ago

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/

8 months ago

Everyone in Seattle hates AI

https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html

8 months ago

Accepting US car standards would risk European lives

https://etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-standards-would-risk-european-lives-warn-cities-and-civil-society/

8 months ago

“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34524

8 months ago

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files

https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/12/02/filevine-api-100k

8 months ago

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business

https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business

8 months ago

RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/security/advisories/GHSA-9qr9-h5gf-34mp

8 months ago

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?&p=222136#p222136

8 months ago

MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/27742d469462e1561c776f88ca7a1f26816d69e2

8 months ago

Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/helldivers-2-install-size-slashed-from-154gb-to-just-23gb-85-percent-reduction-accomplished-by-de-duplicating-game-data-an-optimization-for-older-mechanical-hard-drives

8 months ago

The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle

http://fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-mad-men-in-4k-on-hbo-max-debacle.html

8 months ago

Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions

https://finfam.app/blog/credit-union-mortgages

8 months ago

Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public

https://www.ft.com/content/3254fa30-5bdb-4c30-8560-7cd7ebbefc5f

8 months ago

Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/japanese-devs-face-font-licensing-dilemma-as-leading-provider-increases-annual-plan-price-from-380-to-20000

8 months ago

Turtletoy

https://turtletoy.net/

8 months ago

Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games

https://frvr.com/blog/news/steam-deck-lead-reveals-valve-is-funding-arm-compatibility-of-windows-games-to-expand-pc-gaming-and-release-ultraportables-in-the-future/

8 months ago

Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)

https://medium.com/atari-club/interview-with-rollercoaster-tycoons-creator-chris-sawyer-684a0efb0f13

8 months ago

Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/491583942944621371

8 months ago

You can't fool the optimizer

https://xania.org/202512/03-more-adding-integers

8 months ago